Vision

There is an overriding lesson from this series of posts about Wells Fargo. First, though, here are the final three culture characteristics …

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tom on February 8th, 2012

A vision for your organization opens up the dimension of contribution …

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tom on January 25th, 2012

This past Sunday the AFC Champions, New England Patriots, and the NFC Champions, New York Giants, advanced to the Super Bowl. If a sports season is like a “year” in business …

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tom on October 12th, 2011

One of Sheptor’s very compelling comments that he made in his remarks to us – which reflected his openness to not having all the ideas himself or by his senior leadership team – was that “a complaint is a disguised request.”

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tom on September 8th, 2011

In terms of business current events and milestones, in light of his recent resignation of Steve Jobs as CEO, maybe the most famous garage start up of all is the place where Steve and Stephen Wozniak started Apple.

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tom on August 31st, 2011

This week I heard Dr. Robert Ivany, President of St. Thomas University, talk about his experience as Army Aide to President Reagan from 1984 to 1986.

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tom on April 22nd, 2011

I’m a great baseball fan and while I don’t know all of the in-depth strategies and intricacies, I appreciate the game as the skill levels of …

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tom on April 1st, 2011

According to the March 21 issue of Fortune magazine, guess which company is most admired in the categories of financial soundness and long-term investment value?

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tom on February 11th, 2011

One aspect of inspiring employees by senior executives is the ability to attract commitment to performance excellence.  An important channel for this is projecting what it will mean and look like in the future when successes can achieved.  If your vision for your team performance is championship-level play, what will that look like?  One way [...]

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